{"id":2960,"date":"2010-09-24T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2010-09-24T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:10:34","slug":"open-thread-9242010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/open-thread-9242010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &ndash; 9\/24\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Yesterday I kept up with comments before going out to the training meeting related to my volunteer work.&#160; I returned home about the time I normally wake up to do research, so I\u2019m running on a one hour cat nap and need tooth picks for my eyes.&#160; Today will depend on how much sleep I get and how I feel, but I have Saturday set aside for visiting blogs.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today it took me 4:51.&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2010-09-24-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?&#160; (Have at me, Jerry.&#160; This should be an easy win.)<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Take<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/public-policy-in-san-diego\/house-passes-small-business-lending-bill\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Examiner<\/a>: <\/font>The congressional stalemate on the small business lending bill, H. R. 5297, ended today at 3:03 pm. The House approved the amended bill by a vote of 237 to 187.<\/p>\n<p>Only one Republican voted yes.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This the one I said was a sure thing, and at last, after months of Republican obstruction, it can go to Obama for his signature.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>: from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/politicalcartoons\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"24bagley\" border=\"0\" alt=\"24bagley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/24bagley.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"420\" \/> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">TGIF!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I kept up with comments before going out to the training meeting related to my volunteer work.&#160; I returned home about the time I normally wake up to do research, so I\u2019m running on a one hour cat nap and need tooth picks for my eyes.&#160; Today will depend on how much sleep I <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/open-thread-9242010\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-35-id","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}